Switch from RHEL5 to CentOS5

[AlanBartlett]

The other alternative would be to put aside whatever sum of money you would like to donate -- until such time as monetary donations can be accepted once again.

Those of us who are accustomed with the [i]CentOS[/i] project instinctively know that things move very slowly in [i]CentOS-devs land[/i].

[t1shopper]

Ok, $100 is dog eared for CentOS. Now if our office door chime rings with someone saying they are from CentOS asking for beer money then I reserve the right to settle the debt with whoever knocks first.

I'll post back to let you know how the migration goes.

Thanks,

http://www.t1shopper.com/

[pritamsingh98]

[quote]
toracat wrote:
The CentOS Wiki article (thanks to [b]pschaff[/b]):

http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/MigrationGuide

will help you. Look for the "Migration from RHEL5 to CentOS5" section.[/quote]



thanx for sharng

[t1shopper]

For RHEL5 64bit to CentOS 64bit:

# cp /etc/redhat-release /etc/redhat-release-saved

# rpm -e --nodeps redhat-release-notes redhat-release yum-rhn-plugin redhat-logos

#rpm -ivh \
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/centos-release-5-5.el5.centos.x86_64.rpm \
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/centos-release-notes-5.5-0.x86_64.rpm \
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/redhat-logos-4.9.99-11.el5.centos.noarch.rpm

Before doing a "yum install" I suggest installing the "fastest mirror" plugin first because the default mirror I was given was *very* slow...

# yum install yum-fastestmirror

Then do a full:

# yum update

I still have that $$ earmarked to the CentOS team...

[t1shopper]

I still have the $100 earmarked to the CentOS team. No beer events in Los Angeles yet but offer still stands.

[t1shopper]

$100 still dog eared in our account.... Still using CentOS.... Still waiting for cash donation policy to change....

:-)

[TrevorH]

There are CentOS branded T-Shirts available [url=http://promo.centos.org/]here[/url] which require only postage costs but have a helpful button underneath to add a donation to the project...